ds2 finally dry at night. i want to scream and shout in happiness. but cant.....

[pukkapatch]

because he is 6.7 and if i did, then everyone would be like, oh, he wasnt dry before?????
yeah....
dd, who is 18 months younger has been dry for two years. so it was quite upsetting for him. and he is so prou d of himself for not wetting himself.
ten days and we havent used a single pyjama pants nappy, and only one wet night. for someone who had NEVER hada dey night , that is fantastic.

Well done DS2!

That's great - I'd be shouting and screaming the house down pukka! Who gives a what anyone else thinks - imagine the amount you'll be saving on washing powder alone!!

• well done that boy !

That is brilliant! Well done to your DS

Fantastic! Well done minipukka

He'll be wanting to go on sleepovers now you know

That is fantastic! As mum of a 7yo who is just begining to have the occasional dry night, I think that learning to be dry after your peers and younger sibling is perhaps more of an achievement than being dry at the 'normal' age. After all, anxiety and worrying make it harder to be dry - and show me the older child who still wets and isn't just a bit bothered by it.

sorry i had to go onh school run etc and only jsut came back to mumsnet.
thank you all for your support. we are chuffed to bits.
he used to get so worried that he wouldnt be able to go camping with cub scouts. but fortunatly its sorted well before that could happen. we dont do sleepovers though, but last year, when we made a spur of the moment decision whilst abroad, to go for overnight trip to mountains, we had to stop at chemists and buy him size 6 pampers nappies, the largest they had, and he was quite unhappy about it. now we wont have to worry about such stuff any more.
yeahhhh...
pc, well done to your ds. totally agree it is much more of an acheivement when it happens at a much later age. and we cant really trumpet it at the school gates, can we?

last three nights he has wet himself again.

Don't worry his doing bettter then dd 6.9.
She's still to one dry night.

its serotonin production in the brain lexcat. dont worry. it will clikc one day, and that will be that. remember its not a medical problem till they are 7, and even then, they tend to be quite relaxed about it.
i was needlessly worried. we went back to the pullups, and he had one wet one, but two dry since then. so, i'm hoping that we will be having more dry than wet, and that i should probly still keep a supply of pullups in the house.
it will sort itself out.

Pukkapatch my ds is 7yrs 2m, and although we stopped pyjama pants just before his 7th birthday, most nights he wets the bed. he has had the occasional dry one (maybe 10 nights in 2 months) but we always lift him at about 10.30pm so I don't know if that really counts. Did it just happen for your ds (i know he's had the wet nights since) or did you really have to work at it. e.g. no drinks after a certain time, lifting etc etc. We had a referral to a clinic last summer (at my instigation) but I decided not to go because I didn't want to make it into such a BIG DEAL for him, and thought we could go it alone at least for a while.

it just happened. i had previously tried the no drinks, getting him out of bed routine etc. but nothing worked. so for the sake of my own sanity, i just decided to leave it be. as long as he wore pullups, it didnt really cause any problems.
he s having more dry nights than wet ones recently, so i am happy about that. we use the pullups because i cant cope with the washing of his duvet every day. but i am hopeful.

So glad I just came across this thread!

Ds is only just 6 but still has his pull ups at night too. I know it isn't "medical" for some time, but you can't help but be a bit anxious can you?

So we should just leave him to it then? Nice to know we aren't the only ones!

I think mine has finally cracked it oo and he is 6.10.

too

I have a 6.5 year old who is still wet every night. My 3.5 year old has been dry for ages. It has never bothered my older son but today he did say something about it. We too have tried all the different methods and nothing has worked so I hope one day it just clicks for him too.

ilana, it nearly broke my heart when i overheard a converstaion between ds and his younger sister. he was askin her how she had managed to stop wtting herself. .. unfortunatly she had no constructive advice for him.
it will happen. we will stay positive... congratulations nab. i hope you give hima huge present reward somehting.
fmn, stay postive, and try not to worry abbout it. it is far far more common than anyone lets on.

delighted!! (and maybe offers some hope to DS1 who is just 6). I had asimilar conversation with him pukka - He said "But, Mummy, how do I stop the wee coming out if I'm asleep?"

I didn't know how to answer that either. DS2 was dry at night at 3 and a half

shout and scream. surely it's even more of an achievment if you've been trying for so long?